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Towns

Town/Place Name	Dates/Remarks
Alma Junction previously London Junction	Called Alma Junction after 1895, closed in 1924
Alma	Est. 1872, Inc. 1873 PO est. March 7, 1873 located 5 miles NW of Fairplay
Antelope Springs
Antero
Antero Junction	ghost town
Arthurs
Badger City	gone by 1900
Bailey	Est. 1864, PO est. 1878 (PO moved from Deer Valley)
Balfour	PO 1894-1907
Bath also called Hilltop and Summit	RR station on Trout Creek Pass Park & Chaffee county line
Bear Creek	listed 1896
Bellford Mountain Heights
Benkleys	listed 1896
Black Dumps	spans Chaffee/Park border
Black Mountain previously Devine	PO 1898-1911
Bordenville	PO 1879-1884
Boyer
Buckskin/Buckskin Joe previously Laurette	PO est June 1, 1861 disc. January 24, 1873 Park County Seat 1862-1866 located 2 miles west of Alma Ghost town More Info: WesternMiningCo (Added 9/2024)
Buffalo Springs	PO 1875-1912
Cassels	PO 1899-1929
Centerville	listed 1895 located 17 miles east of Fairplay 4 miles North
Chase previously Weller	PO 1892-1911; RR station
Chile Springs	listed 1896
Coal Branch Junction
Como	PO est. January 23, 1879; Inc. 1883
Condon	listed on map 1880
Conrad	PO 1897-1905
Contrite/Cortrite	PO 1889-1892
Cottage Grove	listed early 1880's located between Alma & Holland
Dake	PO 1883-1892
Deadwood
Deer Valley	PO 1871-1878
Devine later Black Mountain	PO 1898-1911
Doran previously Leavick	PO 1901-1907
Dudley	PO 1872-1880
East Leadville
Eleven Mile Village
Estabrook	PO 1880-1937
Eureka
Fairplay 1859 "Fair Play" then became "Fairplay Diggings" then in 1861 "Platte City" then "Fairplay" until 1869, then name officially changed to "South Park City" in 1874 "Fairplay' restored.	PO est August 2, 1862 as Fair Play Inc. 1880
Fairville later Slaughts	PO 1878-1900
Flanders previously Selkirk
Flats see Sacramento	Est. 1878
Fortune Placer
Freshwater now Guffy	Inc. 1897
Garo	PO 1888-1955; est. 1863 Ghost Town
Glenisle
Glentivar	PO 1921-1955
Granite Vale	PO 1861-1870
Grant previously Olava	Est. 1870
Grousemont previously Kaiserheim	PO 1914-1919
Guffy previously Freshwater	Est. 1896
Guird	listed 1896
Halfway
Hall Valley	PO 1874-1898
Hamilton	PO 1860-1881
Hammond	PO 1896-1903
Harris Park
Hartsel	Est. 1866
Haver
Hayman	PO 1904-1918
Highland Park
Hillsdale	In existence 1871-1880's with PO
Hilltop Junction	located 1 mile below Fairplay easily confused with Hilltop on Trout Creek
Hilltop also called Bath and Summit	RR station on Trout Creek Pas
Holland	PO 1884 located 3 miles downsteam from Alma
Holly's Ranche	noted around 1896
Shoe also called Old Town	PO 1881-1894; Inc. 1881
Howbert previously Dell's Camp	PO 1887-1933
Hubbards	listed around 1896
Hursley's Ranche	noted around 1896
Idlewild
Insomont	PO 1902-1917
Jefferson City
Jefferson	PO est September 3, 1861; Est. 1861; Inc 1907
Kaiserheim later Grousemont	PO 1914-1918
Kenosha	PO 1891-1893
King originally but briefly called Como	PO 1884-1896 located 3 miles SE of Como
Lake George	Est. 1891
London Junction later Alma Junction	Est. 1882-1883
Laurette see Buckskin	Est. 1861 Park County Seat 1862-1866
Leavick later Doran	PO 1896-1899
London	PO 1883-1886
Lost Acres
Mahoneyville	location vicinity of London Hill
McKinley
Montgomery/Montgomery City	PO 1862-1888 located at the foot of Hoosier Pass
Mosquito	See Sterling
Mountaindale	PO 1880-1899
Mudsill	Est 1892 RR station for Horseshoe
Mullinville	PO 1880-1882
Myers later called Platte Ranch	located north of Antero Reservoir
Olava	See Grant
Old Town	See Horseshoe
Park City	Est. Late 1870's located 11/2 miles west of Alma
Park	PO 1879-1891 located 7 miles east of Hartsel
Parkview
Peabody's
Pearts	Ranch, Stage Stop located east of Mullenville
Pike-San Isabel Village
Platte Station briefly Platte	PO 1876-1894; located on Weston Pass Wagon Road
Platte River
Platte Ranch previously called Myers	located north of Antero Reservoir
Puma City later called Tarryall	PO 1896-1933; Est. 1896
Quartsville/Quarts Hill	located 1 1/2 miles east of Mt. Cameron
Red Hill	1879 into 1900's
Richards	Listed in Postal Directory, may have been only a ranch.
Roberts	Listed in Postal Directory of 1896, located 3 miles above Fairplay
Rocky	PO 1874-1898
Sacramento also known as Flats	Est. 1878
Salina	Existed around 1906-7 located southwest of Hartsel
Santa Maria
Shawnee	Est. 1900
Singleton
Slaughts previously Fairville	PO 1878-1900
Snowstorm	located about 1 mile above Roberts
South Park	PO 1874-1879
Spinney	PO 1889-1908
Sterling also referred to as Mosquito	PO 1862-1865
Sulpher Springs	PO 1873-1874
Summit also called Bath and Hilltop	RR station on Trout Creek Pass
Surles Meadow
Tarryall City	PO 1860-1863, Kansas Territory, later Park County
Tarryall (New) previously Puma City	PO 1896-1933; Est. 1896 Ghost Town
Trump	PO 1828-1931 appeared on maps in 1930's Ghost town
Truro	PO 1887-1895
Webster	PO est. May 7, 1877 disc. Sept 30, 1909
Weller	see Chase
Weston	End of track town, never a PO located 3 1/2 miles southwest of Garo
Will O Wisp
South Park	Popular Culture: In the long-running animated television series South Park, the eponymous fictional town is situated in an unspecified part of the county

Sources

Bayou Salado The Story of South Park, by Virginia McConnell Simmons, Copyright 1966, pub. Century One Press, Colorado Springs, CO, ISBN 0-937080-03-9

The Tarryall Mountains and the History of the Puma Hills A History, by Midge Harbour, Copyright 1982, pub. Century One Press, Colorado Springs, CO.

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, by Sandra Dallas, Published and Copyright University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. ISBN 0-8061-1910-1.

Wikipedia, March 5, 2023 Park County, Colorado

Colorado County Evolution, Created by Don Stanwyck for the Colorado Genealogy Web COGenWeb,
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